Russia (bbabo.net), - Visitors leave the exhibition "Locomotion", which opened in the Miras Gallery, as if from a session of energy meditation. The number of people who want to see it is growing every day. Basically, these are young people who are difficult to surprise with something unusual. Nevertheless, the authors, who are members of the creative association "Department of Psycho-Physics" (it is spelled that way, with a hyphen), succeeded.

This is the fourth exhibition of the Department. The organizers are the same - the physicist Azat Galiev and the lyricist, that is, the artist, Alexander Sobolev, but the eight participants are new, including Muscovites Olga Budaeva and Artur Tagirov.

The works presented to the audience are "from different operas", but the exposition does not look eclectic, as there is a unifying principle: movement, from the Latin word "motio" and place, that is, "locus". Hence the name - "Locomotion", movement in space, which is somehow present in paintings, drawings, art objects, installations.

Probably, if demonstrated separately, they will not cause the reaction that occurs in almost everyone who comes to Miras. It is a mixture of various positive emotions. What causes them is as difficult to say as it is to explain the perception of any object of art. But it is nothing that the creative association is called the "Department of Psycho-Physics" - here the physical is closely intertwined with the mental. What the soul responds to, only she knows.

Viewing the exhibition is comparable to a hike or a trip. Arrows labeled "Bright Future" indicate the direction in which to look. Visitors are also given a map of the area - a plan of the gallery with the location of the exhibits and a brief description of not even themselves, but the ideas from which they were born.

To some, this may seem redundant and will remind you of the preface to books, setting the reader up for the "correct" perception. But the annotations are curious in themselves.

Here is how the author Vadim Khalitov explains his triptych "51" (the number of one of the most popular and longest bus routes in Ufa):

- 51 is a routine expressed in graphics. Watching the morning news, driving to a stop along the way with monotonous faces, and culminating in a tightly packed bus create a cartoon image of mice, based on a story about human reality.

A triptych with mice - a linocut printed on fabric, you can look at endlessly and recognize yourself in the animals, your daily companions - calm and anxious, indifferent and attentive. They also move: in a crowded cabin, as far as possible, and along with the bus.

Spectators unanimously say that this is a work on the topic of the day, a clear illustration of the so-called transport reform undertaken in Ufa. Now you have to move around the city in overcrowded buses.

The authors of the paintings used both canvases, paper, fabrics, and new materials. For example, "Roconda" by Arthur Lukyanov - the Pink Panther from the famous cartoon, which appeared in the form of Mona Lisa - is written on a bamboo mat, which does not detract from its artistic merit. His second work, "A Dream Inspired by a Dream", painted on the same mat, refers to Salvador Dali's painting "Dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate, a second before awakening." Everything is both joking and serious at the same time, but not at all vulgar.

Paintings by Svetlana Mironova, made on the fabric from which camping tents are sewn, became bright semantic and color accents of the exposition: "Jumped" and "We tear the claws". Their sharp dynamics are slightly muffled by graphic series like "The Walking Bear" of nine pictures. When you look at them with a quick glance, you get the effect of a cartoon - the bear is walking. Similar series of Alexander Sobolev's "Sparrow graphics", representing the experimental dance of birds on carbon paper, or "12 movements of a snail on tissue paper" takes the viewer into the microcosm.

The paintings are incomprehensibly combined with art objects made from parts of laboratory equipment that have served their time. But in the hands of artists and they find a new life. 9000 turns of copper wire - and now we have elements of the "Golden Cocoonization Collection" - funny figures resembling little men, robots or animals.

Physicists and lyricists found a common language in an effort to visualize even the movement of sound. So, with the help of a noise generator and an oscilloscope, they showed what music looks like.

Alexander Sobolev, as the leader of the amoralism movement, which means commitment to love and harmony, even made the Amoremeter. Figures of a woman and a man, standing on both sides of a vane anemometer - a device for measuring wind speed, by acting on it, demonstrate the strength of their love for each other.

You can touch the exhibits, twist what is spinning, moves and watch, watch how the pictures change or what movements the tiny gymnast performs.

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